I have done a good amount of “research” on this subject. From what I’ve found, the BWV 1 BR (in this case, boardwalk view) has completed the refurbishment. However, it seems that some of the rooms have the Murphy bed and others have the pull out couch in the living space. After several phone calls with various cast members, what I’ve surmised is that the Murphy Bed villas are for DVC and the couch bed rooms are for direct sale.
Is this crazy? Am I a conspiracy theorist? If we cannot get a Murphy Bed, this is a deal breaker. If this is the way they book rooms, it seems crazy to me that Disney would be essentially pushing people to rent points.
Btw, I do have a reservation, directly through Disney. I’ve been told several times that only the pullout couch is available. And this reservation is for August of 2025.
You would need to book a villa room, not an Inn room. The Villas side is DVC, but Disney “owns” some of the DVC rooms and you can book them through Disney.
On Disney’s site, you can see that they list the BWI and BWV separately:
ETA: Don’t go by the photos. Disney hasn’t updated their photos, so it still shows couches in the Villas.
I have booked a 1 bedroom villa. In my reservation, it states it is in Disney’s Boardwalk Villas. When I speak to CastMembers, they state that there will not be a Murphy Bed available for my stay.
The 1-bed villas only have a master bedroom with a king size bed and a queen Murphy bed. They do not have the single sleeper bed. If someone is booking on points they can have 5 people but there is no bed for the 5th person.
Whereas a studio has a single pull down bed that is often called a Murphy bed. Maybe that is what the CMs are meaning, that thee is no 3rd bed.
There are 9 dedicated 1 bedrooms and 21 lockoffs (can be combined with a studio to create a 2 bedroom). Yes, during renovations the Boardwalk view rooms had a shortage of the couch/queen bed Murphy beds. In those rooms couch beds were used. Reports were that once inventory was replenished, the queen Murphy’s/sofa would be put into the rooms.
I have not read any recent reports of people having couch beds, but that does not mean it is not possible.
Room assigners need to assign rooms based on booking categories and length of stays. I would be shocked if they can also consider if you are a dvc owner, renter, or cash booking. Do you think you might be impacted by the way you booked?
I would caution that if you are calling not all cast members are located in WDW and they might not know.
Agreed. There would be no way for the room assigner to know whether a guest staying at the Villas was a DVC owner, a renter or even booked direct through Disney. All they have is the booking on MDE. They can’t see the DVC site; not only that but even if they could the only clue they would have is if the box on the DVC booking page is ticked which says whether they are an owner or not. And that box is not verified in any way.
I think with some DVC resorts it does. SSR and OKW come to mind. Can I prove it no…but it sure has felt that way a few times. I have stayed at both on cash, my points and through Interval exchanges. The interval exchanges - those are always as far from anything as you can get…
I genuinely appreciate everyone’s feedback. I assure you I don’t post without first doing some searching myself. I agree that it seems absurd that room assigners could differentiate between cash and dvc reservations. However, I did actually call the DVC sales number and they gave me a different impression. Secondly, three different CMs told me that none of the 1 BR villas ( the one on my reservation) have the Murphy Bed. With each of them, I suggested that I had seen video of said room and they resisted saying it didn’t show that.
One CM was able to tell me the 1 BR villa at Beach Club and at Boulder Creek both have Murphy beds.
Thanks to folks like you, I knew this. But she was helpful.
All of this silliness is just a long way to attempt to find out if I should cancel at Boardwalk. We did 9 days at Copper Creek in a 2 BR in July and I won’t have my son do another stint on the pullout sofa! So I need to make sure we get a Murphy Bed one way or another.
Thank you all for making my family’s trips easier and more comfortable!
For Interval exchanges they probably can tell, yes. Those come with an exchange voucher and have a separate inventory. I imagine there is a way those are identified on MDE.
As @Nicky_S said, I think the issue is that you are using the a term that means something different to the people you are talking to. At Boardwalk the studios have always had a stationary queen bed, a couch queen couch and a Murphy bed (twin). The 1 bedrooms have a king and a couch that converts to a queen (either pull out or pull down). It does not have the studio Murphy bed.
The pull down bed in the one bedroom IS a Murphy bed, so I am confused by your statement. Do you just mean there is a difference between the two? I slept on the the Murphy bed in both the 1 bedroom and the studio and they had the same pull down mechanism and the mattress felt the same.
I have stayed at SSR in a 1 br in 2022 and in 2024. Two different rooms but same building in the Paddock area.
Both 1 br rooms had the king bed in the bedroom, a pull down queen Murphy bed over the sofa and also, each had the twin size Murphy bed under the tv. So sleeping surfaces for 5. At SSR
Have not stayed at Boardwalk since 2013 and that was a lockoff 2 br.
I don’t think I said it earlier. I am a member of a number of Boardwalk Villas groups and I read reports of rooms being closed for a day or two to replace the pull out sofas. I have not read any reports in months of them still being in any rooms.
